Winners of 46th Kerala State Film Awards 2016 is declared on March 1, 2016. The awards were selected based on a list of 73 Malayalam films selected by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. Minister Thriruvanjoor Radhakrishnan,the state Minister for Forest, Transport, Sports, Environment, and Cinema, anounced the winners in the press meet, which will be held in Trivandrum. This award is for the films released in 2015. Charlie and Ennu Ninte Moideen bagged most of the awards at the Kerala State Film Awards. The detailed list are given below.

Jury : The winners were selected by a jury headed by filmmaker Mohan. The other jury members were George Kithu, AL Vijay, Sulakshana, Sharath, B R Prasad, Venugopal, Premchand, Dr Soman, and CR Rajmohan.Best Movie :Ozhivudivasathe Kali (An Off-Day Game), directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan won the best film award 2015.This movie is the adaptation of a short story by Unni R . The story is about the present socio political mindset of Kerala in crisply narrated dramatic events. Even though the the plot is too local, the undercurrents break that limitation to become universal. Sanalkumar Sasidharan is the winner of Best Director for Oraalppokkam at the 46th Kerala State film awards 2015

Manoj Kana’s Amoeba, based on the travails of Endosulphan victims in Kasargode district, won the award for the second best film.

Best Director : Martin Prakkat won the award for the Best Director for Charlie

Best Actor and Actress: Dulquer Salmaan won the Best Actor award for his performance in Charlie, while Parvathy won the Best Actress for her contrasting performances in Charlie and Ennu Ninte Moideen. Actor Jayasurya won the special Jury award for his performance in Su Sundi Valmeekam

Charlie and Ennu ninte moideen bagged most of the awards at 47th Kerala State Film Awards

Malayalam Movie Charlie won eight awards including best director, best actor and best actor in addition to other technical awards.

Ennu Ninte Moideen directed by R.S.Vimal won the award for the Best Popular Film. Other awards shared by this movie are for best actress, best cinematography, best lyrics, best music director, best singer (see the list below) Ennu ninte Moideen was the winner of many awards at Asianet film awards 2016 and Vanitha film awards 2016 . But it was not repeated in Kerala State Awards.